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According to military officials, the initial number of 2,000 US soldiers that had just been installed in Europe reached Germany and Poland. It comes as a part of the US attempt to reinforce the eastern flank of NATO while Russia positions additional troops near Ukraine’s borders.
The forces reaching Germany are composed of 300 members of the 18th Airborne Corps, who will aid joint task force base operations there. The two units are headquartered in North Carolina at Fort Bragg.
Officers from the US army rolled at the Rzeszow-Jasionka Airport early Saturday in the southeastern region of the nation, sharply 50 miles from the Ukraine border, including the commanding general of the 82nd Airborne Division Major General Christopher Donahue, who was the final US soldier to leave Afghanistan.
During the weekend, around 1,700 service members of an 82nd Airborne infantry brigade combat team, a unit of paratroopers, were supposed to reach Poland.
President Joe Biden commanded the station Wednesday. An additional 1,000 soldiers installed in Germany will be moved eastward to Romania, which shares a border with Western Ukraine as well.
Around 7,000 US soldiers are installed in Europe permanently. Moreover, another additional 7,000 troops are sent on a rotational basis to the continent as part of a NATO reinforcement mission named Atlantic Resolve.
On Friday, equipment reached the port in Poland as facet of those rotations; tens of Stryker armored vehicles included. 8,500 soldiers in the US also continue to be on alert. None of the US soldiers will participate in battle in Ukraine, said Biden and US officials.
The US troop installations materialize following new satellite images exhibiting the magnitude of the amassed Russian troops near the borders of Ukraine. Over 100,000 Russian troops are estimated to be sent to positions in Belarus, Western Russia, and Crimean Peninsula—which was annexed by Russia in 2014.
The most vital buildout exhibited in the new images is that numerous of Russia’s deployment areas now comprised tents, which directly indicates that soldiers have arrived or will soon arrive, escalating their battle preparedness.
